Charles Bukowski: Citáty v angličtine (page 13)

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“I knew it would be you”

Zdroj: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

“this time has finished me.”

Charles Bukowski kniha Love Is a Dog from Hell

Zdroj: Love Is a Dog from Hell

“a good book
can make an almost
impossible
existence,
liveable

( from 'the luck of the word' )”

Charles Bukowski kniha Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

Zdroj: Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

“Most people are not ready for death, theirs or anybody elses.”

Zdroj: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

“eleven months.

now she's gone
gone as they go.”

Charles Bukowski kniha Love Is a Dog from Hell

Zdroj: Love Is a Dog from Hell

“the worst thing," he told me,
"is bitterness, people end up so
bitter.”

Zdroj: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

“At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole god-damned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves.”

Charles Bukowski kniha Ham on Rye

Ham On Rye (1982)
Zdroj: Ham on Rye
Kontext: The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole goddamned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves. I had no interests. I had no interest in anything. I had no idea how I was going to escape. At least the others had some taste for life. They seemed to understand something that I didn't understand. Maybe I was lacking. It was possible. I often felt inferior. I just wanted to get away from them. But there was no place to go.

“I'm not the cruel type, but they are, and that's the secret.”

Charles Bukowski kniha Tales of Ordinary Madness

Zdroj: Tales of Ordinary Madness

“mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?”

Charles Bukowski kniha Love Is a Dog from Hell

Zdroj: Love Is a Dog from Hell

“I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.”

Charles Bukowski kniha Love Is a Dog from Hell

Zdroj: Love Is a Dog from Hell

“I'm too careless. I don't put out enough effort. I'm tired.”

Charles Bukowski kniha South of No North

Zdroj: South of No North